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Old 09-23-2005, 01:34 PM   #1
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By voting for Thranduil, you are following a stereotype trod by thousands of Legolas fangirls, demonising the "evil father"; and neglecting the evidence in the Hobbit and the LOTR appendices, which definitely settles on Thranduil being a good, even great king. Remember also that he was the last Elvenking on Middle-earth; truly the last whose realm was free, if not "fair and free", of ancient Sindarin race and great practical abilities.
Is that any less a reason to ly... er... ship him off the island? What need do they have of a loving father now that they have killed... er shipped off his progeny? For that matter, what need to they have of fair and free Elvenkings?

Furthermore, as the evidence of Tolkien's work will show, Thranduil has clearly been spreading anti-Dwarven xenophobia. The Elves and the Dwarves are both small, non-human tribes as of now, and really ought to be working together against that insidious menace which is everyone else...

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You are also rejecting the closest Tolkien's Elves come to a truly beautiful and chilling piece of our folklore; the fay wood-dwellers, the Hunters of the forests, in a word, the elfin-court, as celebrated in its marvellous, terrifying brilliance in ballads like Tam Lin:
Beautiful and chilling? Fay wood-dwellers? Marvelous, terrifying brilliance?

Allow me to remind me you of the true meanings of "chilling", "fay", and "terrifying". Basically, you are saying that you want to save a cold, crazy, and scary Elflord? At least Gollum's down-to-earth...
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Old 09-23-2005, 01:39 PM   #2
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If you insist on cheapening this, then I would argue that a "cold, scary, crazy Elf-Lord" "makes better TV" than some inarticulate product of the grimy Hobbit underclass.

Besides, with poor Celeborn gone, there's every chance of illicit romance with Galadriel...what gets better viewing than that?
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Old 09-23-2005, 01:49 PM   #3
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WOW!!! People are really starting to get on each others last nerves!! I think we should have a BD Survivor!! Oh!! Right. We have that already..... I never knew that what me and Folwren started would bring this much fun and rivlary and so much competitiveness!!! Awsome!!!

What has Eowyn done? She never did any harm! She helped us be rid of that stupid evil Witch-King!! Now if that isn't an accomplishment in life, than I don't know what is.
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Old 09-23-2005, 02:22 PM   #4
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1420! <-- Found it at Thranduril's!

...I just voted for him because he's hogging the wine...
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Old 09-23-2005, 02:32 PM   #5
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Old 09-23-2005, 04:41 PM   #6
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I don't know where Boromir is, but you all may be interested in knowing that the voting is over for today, and the one who say goodbye is...Thranduil. Wow. Didn't expect that. It was a vote of seven to nine. Gollum was almost as bad as an orc...I would have been alright with that.

Farewell, Thranduil.

I'll leave the rest to Boromir to fix up.

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Old 09-23-2005, 08:11 PM   #7
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Ok, it's been 4 hours now and Boro still isn't back. I'm finding this rather disturbing. But I will not continue until he returns. Anybody else sharing my thoughts?
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